Word: gloats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intern was quoted as saying that at an initial meeting of White House interns "at least one-third of the people were from Harvard...Everyone else was rolling their eyes, but I was proud." Certainly it is positive to have large numbers of Harvard students in Washington, but to gloat over the fact is pure arrogance. Such comments would be worthy of ridicule in the real world, but at Harvard they go unnoticed...
CREATIONISTS ARE BOUND TO GLOAT OVER the inability of evolutionary scientists to explain everything definitively. But science is only an honest attempt by reasoning people to find out what is going on; it inevitably requires the changing of an open mind as new evidence comes to light. Faith, on the other hand, is the blind acceptance of "explanations" without any hard evidence. It is preposterous for a closed-minded adherent of a prepackaged, supernatural "origin of species" theory to flaunt science's admitted lack of omniscience as support for a totally irrational dogma. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
Dole's aides are hardly oblivious. "Barely adequate" is their candid assessment of Dole on the stump. But this time they have reason to gloat. Dole has stayed "on message." Among the Doleites, their man is "on message" when he avoids describing the government as "doing a lot of good things," a sentiment the campaign would just as soon have him ditch. "Stayed on message," Dole says afterward, before repeating a pet peeve: "Every time I do that reconnect-the-government-to-values stuff, I feel like a plumber...
...celebration Wednesday night was not a chance to gloat over a vanquished enemy. We celebrated the miracle of freedom for a people nearly annihilated in this century. The Palestinian and Israeli communities must continually reevaluate national myths and recognize that human imperfection will always be a blemish on our hopes for true freedom. And I hope that we can walk arm in arm towards a brighter future. Ethan M. Tucker '97 Chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...even at this late date. The issue is that I can't distinguish between the unasked and the asked. It's not that I mind the asking, or even the rejection. I just can't spend the dance running into my old askees. I don't want them to gloat when they see my date--whoever he may be--knowing all the while that he is at least my second fiddle. Time is running short, so please tell me soon! Dateless in DeWolfe...